Dr David Edwards joins Festival Committee

We are delighted to announce that David Edwards of UCC has agreed to join the WCHF Festival Committee.

David Edwards is Senior Lecturer in History at University College Cork. He is a graduate of TCD and went to UCC in 1993, teaching and researching in the area of late medieval and early modern Ireland. His current principal project focuses on the career and estate of the ‘New English’ adventurer Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, whose land-grabbing activities in Munster and parts of Connacht and Leinster helped to transform the social and economic life of early seventeenth-century Ireland. He spoke on the first Earl at the 2017 Festival.